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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2022
Applicant:
Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Simon Prince, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Assignee:
ILLUMINA, INC., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/00 (2006.01); H04N 23/45 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/502784 (2013.01); H04N 23/45 (2023.01); B01L 2200/16 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0654 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0877 (2013.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01);
Abstract
Resolution of images used in processes such as sequencing by synthesis may be increased by structuring sites that would emit signals in the images to have different elevations. Differences in focus caused by these differences in elevation may be used to filter out background illumination, thereby providing an image in which in focus sites may be resolved even though the separation between any site and its nearest neighbor may be below the diffraction limit of the light that would be emitted.